| tuscaniman99 said: @VGKing What's the issue with promoting the Xbox One as a multimedia machine? I already know it is going to play games because I'm not an idiot and I saw plenty of them at E3. I want to see what else the consoles can do besides games. MS has shown the interface and some of these other things while Sony is keeping the interface under wraps. Why can't we see it? User interface experience and multimedia experiences are as important as games. The hardcore gaming audience is only so big and if Sony only goes after the hardcore gamer you can bet they won't sell anywhere near what the PS2 sold. I guarantee half the people who purchased the PS2 solely did so because it played DVDs. I know I was one of those people. |
Did you buy your PS2 at launch for DVDs? I'm guessing no. Hardcore gamers do for the games. The DVD player was an extra feature that yes Sony could say it also plays DVDs but it was first and foremost a gaming console and was marketed as such and this helped it win out against DIVX etc. Only the most hardcore went out and bought a PS3 early on and that audience helped drive the adoption of the BR standard over HDDVD. So you first have to woo the gamers to these consoles to get the inertia needed to grow the audience.
We have Apple TV, Roku, PCs, Smart TVs cable company set top boxes with DVR functions etc. etc. that do many of the things the next gen consoles are doing. Its not like the XB1 or even the PS4 are introducing these features for the first time like the PS2 did with DVD and PS3 with BluRay (they launched at or very near the beginning of those standards) so adoption is even more dependent on that core gaming audience this time around.
